Power-driven stripper or header harvester.



1. 0. BROOK. POWER DRIVEN STRIPPER OH HEADER HARVESTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. 14. 19H5.

Patented 1 e@.3,1918.v

`comb and a beater drum and which UNITED sTATEs PaTENT oEEIcE.

JOHN OLIvER BROOK, OF HILLSIDE, CURBAN, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

POWER-DRIVEN STRIPPER 0R HEADER HARVESTER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dee. 3, 1918.

Application led March 14, 1916. Serial N o. 84,038.

To allfwhom z't may concern:

v13e it known that I, JOI-IN OLIVER Buooir, a British subject, residing at Hillside, Curban, in the State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Power-Driven Stripper or Header Harvesters, of which the following is a specification.

L'Irhis invention of improvements in motordriven harvesters has reference to the means for imparting motion direct from the crank sha'ft of motor to the beaters spindle to the main or=thieshing drum spindle and other applianees carried on the machine, and further it relates to providing such machines with a beaters o1' reel, extends transversely over the front of the full -width of the framing and body of machine and especially extending over the front of the foreearriage. By aid of the latter improvements when harvesting such as wheat, oats, barley, rye or the like, the machine can be worked in crops ywithout causin any Waste of grain by its being tramp ed on by the travelling wheels of the harvester, also a machine can be worked through the crop in adjacent parallel lines without having to traverse around it, and thus a reat saving in time and in the grain is eifected.

The aforesaid improvements ai'e mostly applicable to harvesting machines of the class known as header harvesters, combinedl harvesters, stripper lharvesters or vstripping machines. The motor employed is so assembled on the machine frame that it may be easily detached Vfor use for any ordinary farm purposes, whilcthe class of motor will be preferably of the type in which oil or li uid fuel is used.

he 'invention will now be described aided by a reference to the attached sheets of drawings wherein the above referred to improvements are illustrated.

Figure l being an outline side View et as much of a header harvesting machine as is necessary to illustrate'. my improvements.

Fig. 2 an outline plan of a header harvester of the type shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 shows the clutch' gear provided as a means for allowing the traveling wheels of machine to be stopped. while the motor and gears remain running.

A is the comb, B the beater drum and B1 the beaters, the near side end x of all of propelling spindle and to the peg- 4stay Wi th which' extend to completely over the iront end of the fore-carriage C, while their oli` end 1/ extends to a position beyond thc line of the off side traveling wheel D. E is the body of the machine and as the beater drum is wider at each end'than the body it is necessary to have a worm or creeper as F or other type of conveyor or a chute to deliver the grain heads from the beaters to the 11p-cast elevator or throat G which delivers the grain to a pcg or threshing drum as H from which the threshed heads pass through such as a chute H1 to a screening appliance H2 which is acted on as usuallby fanners I.

Harvesters having my improvements enibodied in it are driven by a motor as J preferablyofthe multiple cylinder type or other suitable power engine carried on the machine, and from a pulley on motor crank shaft J1, thetraveling wheels D and Dl are propelled through the intervention of belt J 2 imparting motion to a shaft D2 havingr at each of its ends a pinion D3 which gear with internal toothed wheels D mounted on the main traveling wheels D and D. In like manner another pulley on motor crank shat't J1 imparts motion by belt K to a pulley on the peg drum of thresher spindle H3 and a pulley on near end of motor shaft drives the beaters B1 by aid of belt B2, also a pulley is provided on shaft D2 to impart motion by belt L to a pulley on the spindle of fanners I while the be driven from any moving chine which' will provide the requisite speed. M is a diagonal stay, the fore end of which is attached to the usual lifting gear on forcearriage C, while M1 is a reversely arranged for supporting the olf outer end or cheek of the beater drum, and creeper.

Both ends of the aforesaid spindle D2 which carries the pinions' D3 are furnished spring operated sliding tooth [clutches D5 arranged as-is shown in Fig. 3, wherem each grooved sliding half of tooth clutch has a fork or ring D upon it, connected by oppositely arranged rods D7 to a sway lever D centered on a loose lock Dg arranged be tween collars onspinld eVD2 so'that by levers D being connected b.y \a rod or otherwise within reach of the driverhe can, by operating the leverl in the proper direction, cause the machine to stop travelin and at the same time allow 4the various ot iergears and appliances to be kept running.

All the other movable appliances in the part oi' themamachine will he driven or receive motion either direct from the crank shaft' of motor or troni aforesaid main propelling spindle..

As an altermttive, in placel ot' drivingy the, hea-ters and other parts with helling and pulleys suitable sprockets for chain belting or grooved pulleys for rope helling may be employed. Also all the main hearings have annular or other grease cups each of aca pacitv to hold about one 'quarter pound of grease.

I wish it to he understood that so far as the arrangement ot' the heater drinn heaters and comb in t'ront ot' thetore-carriage is concerned. such parts inav either he separa'u hlc from or he fixed to the machine, and the saule applies to the off side oi machine wherein the heater'drtun, and comb lie in front o1LA the otl' side wheel` although I am aware. that this latter feature is already in use. hut not as devised h v nie along with the "near end arranged in front ofthe forccarriage.

What I do claim as in v invention. and dcsire to secure hy Letters latent. is-- 1. A harvestiirer machine comprising an axle. wheels journalcd on said axleya foreearriage carried hy one end ot' said axle and receivingr one ot' said wheels threshing apparatus in advance of said wheels` intersectingr iliaefonall)v disposed supporting stays rand belts. arranged to axle and t'orel arriage, a smaller wheel carried h v the fer ward end of said forcearriage,4 a motor on the rear end of said forccarrlage,

and means for operatively connecting the motor to said wheels and said threshing apparatus.

2. A harvestingl and threshintr machine comprising a wheeled supportingr trame` harvesting mechanism comprising a heater drum carried by and located iu advance of said frame, a cmnh in advance of said heater drum,` a heaterjonrnaled in said drinn, a conve ver chute connected to said drum, threshing apparatus in said chute, a rcceptacle at the rear end of said chute, a fan connected with said receptacle, a motor sup' ported ilulepemlently of the harvestingr and threshing apparatus, and shafts,4 pulleys, operatively connect said motor to the harvesting and threshing apparatus` the fan. and to the wheels of said frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 55 name 'to this specification in the presence of two suhscrihiinglr witnesses.

JoHN oLIVEI-i BROOK.

Witnesses:

Birnuxofrox BODYCOMB, Ll-:sLm LAwToN BEAR.l 

